All cops know that a search warrant must be read out loud to whomever is present inside a house or any other structure, before a search for evidence begins.

But does anyone besides law enforcement know that police must also read their search warrants out loud to a house or a building or any other structure, even when they’re empty?

Recently, at the scene of a fatal shooting at a house on South Keech Street in Daytona Beach, a policeman — as he stood in the front yard facing the empty house — read the search warrant to the empty residence. When he was done, three investigators entered the home.

The property owner was at the hospital, police said, and no one else was around to listen for the search warrant.

Strange as it may seem, Daytona Beach police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said the law requires the reading — even when no one is around to hear it.

Flynt then said he once had to read a search warrant to a shed.

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